Warp Magazine March 2019

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MARCH 2019 Friday 8th 10pm International Womens Day Lady line-upYoni + The Steamers, The Cool Beanz, The Crystelles, Samara Cullen, Kat Edwards, Danah & Mardia $5 Saturday 9th 10pm TBA Sunday 10th 2.30pm The Blue Flies 8.30pm Wahbash Avenue Monday 11th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 12th 8pm Montz Matsumoto Wednesday 13th 8.30pm The Foley Artists Thursday 14th 8.30pm Toby Beard Friday 15th 10pm Chillinit + Wombat $40 Saturday 16th 10pm Mephistopheles + Knife Hands + Supports $10 Sunday 17th 2.30pm Backsliders $20pre/$25door 8.30pm Clinton Hutton Monday 18th 8.00pm Jasper Jones

Tuesday 19th 8.30pm The Tommyhawks Wednesday 20th 8.30pm Matthew Barker Thursday 21st 8.30pm Lou Bradley & Phil Friday 22nd 10pm Roadkill & Supports Saturday 23rd 3pm JEZZAS FAREWELL!! free feast & entertainment (not from Jez, we promise) 10pm Boil Up $5 Sunday 24th 9pm TBA Monday 25th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 26th 8pm Sam Forsyth Wednesday 27th 9pm Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird $15pre/$20door Thursday 28th 8.30pm The McLeans Friday 29th 9.30pm Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission $25pre/$30door Saturday 30th 10pm The Outfit $5 Sunday 31st 2.30pm Mumbo Gumbo 8.30pm Tim & Scott

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News in Brief BACK ON THE ISLAND There’s no beating around the bush with the first single off AlfanAnt’s forthcoming Aurora Australis album, ‘Head In The Clouds’. The easy-breezy ditty with infectious harmonies, great guitar picking and sweet songwriting belies the underlying meaning – expecting something to change, but doing nothing about it. To coincide with the new single, AlfanAnt have hit the road along with the equally excellent Cotton Pony. Their east coast tour wraps up on Friday March 1 at the Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart, and on Saturday March 2 at The Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston. Both gigs are free entry, which is completely rad.

WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

Seth Sentry’s debut album This Was Tomorrow took him to the forefront of Australian hip hop, turning out hit single after hit single and earning him a gold record, an ARIA nomination, literally millions of YouTube views, and accolades like Channel [V] Artist Of The Year and being the first Australian hip hop artist to perform on a US talk show, when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

His follow up album Strange New Past was equally as well recognised and propelled his career even further in to the stratosphere. Don’t miss Seth Sentry with guests Chase City, Tai Harlii and Session B at the Hobart UniBar on Friday March 1. Tickets are available now via Oztix, and will set you back $34.70, or $18.40 with a student ID. THREE OF THE BEST The Marion Bay Music and Arts Concept proudly presents three extraordinary performers in one intimate concert!

Except it’s happening three times. Jo Jo Smith, Lucie Thorne and Claire Anne Taylor will be performing at the Copping Hall on Friday March 15, Saint John Craft Beer (in Launceston) on Saturday March 16 and Two Oaks (Somerset) on Sunday March 17. Jo Jo Smith is one of Australia’s

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greatest musical treasures, Lucie Thorne is one of Australia’s most striking songsmiths, and Claire Anne Taylor crafts soulful folk songs that are alternatively lush and intimately earthy. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch all three at once!

For tickets can be purchased from www. trybooking.com.

THE TWENTY SECOND FORTH The Forth Valley Blues Festival is happening again and will feature another stellar line up this year. The festival which is now in it’s 22nd year will take place on Friday March 15 and Saturday March 16 and will see 13 Blues and Roots acts perform. This year the Friday night will be held at the Forth Pub where 6 acts will perform and saturday will return to the Forth Recreation Ground, just across the river. The event will be headlined by iconic blues band Chain, who are the only Australian band to ever have a number 1 hit with a blues song, “Black and Blue”.

Some other festival highlights include the Pierce Brothers, Backsliders, Kim Churchill and Minnie Marks. For more information, visit www.forthvalleyblues. com.

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New Horizons have chosen to step over the threshold with their first invitational of the year, inviting the Turner Street Sound / Rings Around Saturn / Midnight Tenderness boys to come across the pond to see what’s cooking down south. Both rooms at The Grand Poobah will be in complete lockdown and quarantine due to an outbreak of <<dancing mania>>. Whilst TTS, RAS, and MT hold down the Main Room, a who’s who of New Horizons DJs will be holding down the Kissing Room.

It’s all going down on Saturday March 16, check out the social media action to find out the details.

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Greece’s 1000mods bring their psychedelic onslaught to Australia this April, touring nationally on the back of a Mojo Burning 2019 festival appearance.

Having risen from smokey basements to packed arenas, leaders of the now legendary Greek heavy rock scene 1000mods offer inspired, powerful and uniquely fresh tunes having shared the stage with some of the world’s largest acts including The Black Keys, Mastodon, The Black Angels and Graveyard. The Tasmanian leg of the Australian tour hits Hobart Brewing Co on Tuesday April 9. Tickets are $30 and are available via eventbrite.com.au.

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To get off the ground and dive headfirst into your gambling career, here’s a wager for you and a friend of choice. A bet that you can’t lose - A. Swayze and the Ghosts, Crocodylus and VOIID on the “All-In Tour”. This March AS&TG, CROCODYLUS and VOIID are touring the east coast of Australia as a three-headed beast. Each band representing their state proudly on some of the best stages in the country. No headliners, no under the table tricks, and the house never wins - a sure success for you and your droogs/droogettes. Whatever that means. It’ll all be going down at Hobart Brewing Company on Friday March 15. Tickets are on the ol’ Oztix, for $18.40.

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Speak Up Stay ChatTY is an excellent endeavour aiming at raising money for mental health and awareness. Complete is an MC from Perth that has become one of the most respected emcees in Australian hip hop circles. On Saturday April 13 will see Elevated and THCTV combine Complete and Speak Up Stay ChatTY at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart.

There’ll be an all ages gig from 3pm to 6pm, and an 18+ gig from 8pm to midnight. Local supports include Dunn D, Butter D, Bladel, SkurgeOne and Menz playing the 18+ gig, and Luna, Hermit, 90 Pillz (Rowdy & Daniel Stringer), and

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Sydney’s wildest quartet Totally Unicorn have announced their brand new album Sorry for release on Friday April 12, and not long after, the band will take the album out for a spin around the country as part of their headline tour in April/ May. In two short years since the 2016 release of their debut Dream Life, a lot has changed for Totally Unicorn. They haven’t stopped bringing the good times but now they’re getting real about what lies beneath the party. On Sunday April 28 you can catch some of their good times at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart, they’ll be joined by Arse and Lake Myer.

BEC IS BACK

Following the release of her sophomore release Why Don’t You Just? On Hobbledehoy Records, honest and expressive Adelaide-based songwriter Bec Stevens hits the road armed with her band. Don’t miss these intimate and moving shows. The Tasmanian leg of the tour hits the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday April 12. Tickets are available via Oztix, and will cost you $14.30. On the following night, Bec will be at The Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston on Saturday April 13. Tickets for that one are also available via Oztix and will cost you $13.80.

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ALPHA AND OMEGA 2019 sees the release of Wear Your Sins – a watershed release that presents a massive shift in the overall tone of Orpheus Omega. Displaying the result of cumulative experience over the past decade and transmuting the band into a fully fledged world class act. Wear Your Sins is destined to become not only a breakthrough effort from the group but also a classic album in the landscape of modern heavy metal. This promise is delivered on the back of highly refined songwriting and meticulous attention to detail in sound design, leaving no stone unturned and no idea unscrutinized.

That all sounds pretty impressive, and on Friday April 26 at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart and Saturday April 27 at Mode Bar in Launceston, we’ll be able to find out just how impressive it really is.

OPEN UP

Swedish melodic-death metal legends AT THE GATES make the journey South for what will be an amazing licensed all ages event at The Odeon Theatre, Hobart. The band has been around for almost thirty years in various iterations, including an eleven year hiatus from 1996 to 2007.

In late 2014, they released At War With Reality, their first album in 19 years.

Despite losing guitarist Anders Bjorler in 2017, the band went on to release To Drink From The Night Itself in May 2018 to critical acclaim. Their long journey south culminates with a performance at The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Sunday April 26. Tickets are available from www.oztix. com.au, and will cost you $51.

FIELD OF RUBIES

Friday May 17, and ending with a show at Hobart’s Republic Bar & Cafe on Saturday June 8. Tickets for that gig are available via Moshtix.

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A KICK IN THE CHOCOLATE STARFISH

UN-POISON IVY

Having released her debut album I’m Dreaming in February 2018, electronic producer Alice Ivy has performed more than 50 shows worldwide including Australian national tours with Flight Favilities, Vera Blue & The Jungle Giants, SXSW 2018, Falls Festival & Splendour In The Grass. Her eclectic signature sound spans sample-influenced soul, hip hop and electronic pop that she brings to life as a multi-instrumentalist. With a trio of past singles on high rotation at triple j and a reputation for explosive live performances, Alice Ivy is fast becoming recognised as one of Australia’s most versatile and exhilarating artists. Catch her live on stage at The Republic Bar & Cafe in Hobart on Saturday June 1.

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After a triumphant showing in this year's triple j Hottest 100 and a stint touring the country nationally this summer with Laneway Festival, Skeggs are hitting the road once more in support of their debut ARIA #2 album 'My Own Mess' and it's new single and video 'Road Trip'. They're playing a gig at the Uni Bar on Friday July 12, and it's going to be a corker. They're bringing their friends Aaron Gocs, Totty and Mini Skirt on the road. Tickets are available from oztix.com.au and will cost you $56. Skeggs have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket will go

With their powerhouse performances and magnetic stage presence, Chocolate Starfish will perform INXS’ Kick album from start to finish – just like an album is meant to be experienced – honouring it’s revered tracks in true Chocolate Starfish style. The band gives audiences what they know and love about a Chocolate Starfish show – pure, unadulterated entertainment, with performances imbued with intensity and revelry. You can check it out at the Wrest Point Showroom on Friday July 19 , and at Country Club Tasmania on Saturday July 20. Tickets for both gigs are available via ticketmaster for $57.54.

THE GOODEST OF GOOD The highly acclaimed Apia Good Times Tour returns for its 7th anniversary lineup of 7 of their all-time favourite Oz music Allstars taking to the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre stage on Friday June 7. The following evening they’ll be on the Princess Theatre stage on Saturday June 8. With performances from Vika and Linda Bull, Brian Cadd, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Russell Morris, Ross Wilson and John Paul Young, this will be a unique, once-in-a-lifetime concert experience. The line-up has a huge array of hits to draw from, and each all-star will perform their hits and favourite songs culminating in an extraordinary finale with all seven sharing the stage.

TEN(OR) OUT OF TEN(OR)

Fresh from stunning audiences during her Laneway Festival run, Sydney’s rawpower Ruby Fields has announced a national tour in support of her upcoming EP, Permanent Hermit. The EP is set for release in early May, and features seven new songs, as well as the nostalgic, slow burning anthem ‘Dinosaurs’, which nabbed the #8 spot on this year’s Hottest 100. Ruby’s 9-show national tour will see her take to the stages of her biggest headline shows to date, with celebrations kicking off at Brisbane’s Brightside on

When you put together three brilliant Tenor voices with natural Irish charm, singing spine-tingling Classical, Folk, Irish, Gaelic and Pop favourites in stacked three-part harmonies, then mix them up with quick witted banter, you have The Celtic Tenors. The charismatic, globetrotting trio are the most successful classical crossover artists ever to have come out of Ireland, and they’re returning to Australia in May and June 2019. On Saturday June 8 they’ll be performing at the Burnie Arts & Function Centre, and on Sunday June 9 they’ll be at the Princess Theatre in Launceston. Get ready for what President Bill Clinton calls “The finest version of ‘Danny Boy’ I have ever heard”.

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WELCOME TO THE DELUXE "IF YOU BELIEVE IN SOMETHING ENOUGH, PEOPLE WILL COME ALONG THE RIDE WITH YOU.” SUCH IS THE NATURE OF THE ARTS. PRODUCER ADAM WEST BELIEVES THAT THEATRE AND ENTERTAINMENT SHOULD BE ALL THAT IT CAN BE, AND DELUXE DELUXE IS EVIDENCE OF THIS ETHOS. HE CLEARLY LOVES HIS WORK (“IF YOU ENJOY WHAT YOU DO, YOU LIVE IN IT ANYWAY. BEING A PART OF DIFFERENT SHOWS DOESN’T SEEM LIKE TOO MUCH OF A JOB; THE EXCITEMENT OF CREATING AND PUTTING ON SHOWS FOR PEOPLE, IT’S ALMOST LEISURELY”) AND DELUXE IS JUST ONE OF PRODUCTION COMPANY STRUT AND FRET’S MANY WILD, UNIQUE AND GLAMOROUS PROJECTS, AND PROMISES TO BEHOLD THE TRUE MEANING OF VARIETY.

“It’s the true essence of variety theatre.”

West explains. “We harness the essence of that and make the most illustrious show possible based around that childlike wonder of what seems impossible, but can be reality. The main inspirations were things like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Mask, that juvenile joy of those outrageous characters in reality.

It’s just a magnificent blend of high skill circus, music, dance; there’s some beautiful theatrical vignettes in there, a great essence of cabaret and variety. A lot of shows are highly kiltered to circus or music, so we wanna make sure the audience get a bit of everything, the true essence of variety. The costumes are bright and vivacious, each character has a different persona. It’s very out there and boisterous.”

Since their beginnings in 1997, Strut and Fret have brought Australia similarly creative, interesting shows, like Blanc

de Blanc (“a refined blend of vintage glamour, high-end spectacle and tantalising acts to infatuate, illuminate and delight”) and Limbo (“an exotic illogical world, where peculiar characters wait on the edge of false awakening”). It’s become their staple: melding comedy, physical talent, glamour and eroticism into their shows. Vintage fun with a modern twist.

“We’re incredibly lucky- we’ve got a massively international cast from all four corners of the globe.” West states.

“We’ve gone for big, animated characters, eccentric performers, loud and vivacious characters in a fast-paced show.”

And a great cast it is, featuring acts like ‘invertebrate’ dancer Anthony Rodriguez (USA), circus/cabaret act Ailona (RUS) and acrobat and contortionist Penelope Elena (GER). West and his team worked hard to find an interesting, entertaining and creative gang to round out the

MUSICAL ELIXIR YOU MIGHT KNOW KATIE NOONAN FROM ANY ONE OF HER FAMOUS PROJECTS: THE CAPTAINS, ELIXIR, GEORGE, HER SOLO WORK AND HER MANY CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS. SHE’S ALSO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL. NOONAN AND HER CURRENT BAND, ELIXIR, HAVE BEEN TEAMING UP WITH CARTOONIST MICHAEL LEUNIG FOR A SERIES OF SHOWS CALLED GRATITUDE AND GRIEF; THE SHOWS COMBINE LEUNIG’S POETRY WITH ELIXIR’S MUSIC. THE PROJECT WAS RELEASED AS AN ALBUM IN AUGUST 2018, AND NABBED AN ARIA NOMINATION FOR BEST JAZZ ALBUM. ALTHOUGH ELIXIR ALBUMS HAVE BEEN SPORADIC (A SELF-TITLED DEBUT IN 2003 AND FIRST SEED RIPENING IN 2011), THE PROJECT SEEMS TO FIT WITH WHAT NOONAN IS KEEN TO EXPRESS AT THIS POINT IN HER LIFE AND CAREER. “Elixir is my longest running project. It started in 1997, my desire was to find an intimate, gentle space to make gentle music that’s quiet and still. Over the three albums, we’ve made a special little sound world we can come in and out of.”

“My favourite modern philosopher is Michael Leunig.” Noonan says. “He has a profound ability to talk about us as a people. Beautiful, succinct short phrases.

It’s great to learn from someone that has a lot to teach me, and Australia. We read his beautiful worlds and cartoons, he’s very special to work with.”

“I think he sums up super big issues in a super digestible way, a sign of a true artist. Less is always more. That’s what I keep on learning, the further I go in my journey as creator. You have this veracious attitude to learn more. There’s a profound sadness in his work, especially in the way Mr Curly despairs for the world, the world getting bigger and bolder and meaner, and it reminds us to be kind, and to sit and look at a tree. That’s enough for that minute. He’s got a lot to teach about being in the moment. He’s able to flip between the childlike and the very deep in one 8

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Deluxe lineup, includings hosts juggler/ contortionist/comedian Scot Nery (USA) and actor/singer Laura Hughes (USA).

“Along with my director Bryn Harris and Scott, we all have a similar idea of what we enjoy.” he says. “We do get very inspired by seeing other shows, but I’d never see another show and think, ‘oh, I wanna do that’. It’s all about inspiration and doing it in your own way. My main inspiration is, if I’m in a show and my foot is tapping and I’m enjoying it, that’s what I wanna do. There’s a lot of audience participation [in Deluxe Deluxe], no-one is safe (laughs).”

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sentence. He’s like a beautiful uncle.”

Noonan acknowledges that, for many artists, it’s easier to tap into sadder veins than happier ones; why is it seemingly easier to write a sad song than a happy one?

“I think it’s tricky to write happy songs and not seem overly twee, happy-clappy or preachy. I’ve always tried to offer optimism in my music. I realised early on that I have a responsibility to offer that. Nothing on this planet is perfect, it’s important to honor the imperfect as well.

I love hearing music that’s imperfect; so much music today is so edited and autotuned and fake, it’s horrible. I’ve always tried to expose my fragilities and humanness in my music and not try to hide behind lyrics or autotune, authenticity is the goal.”

As well as her other musical ventures, Elixir has allowed Noonan to share so much of herself with her listeners.

Indeed, so often is this the very purpose of art. But where’s the line? Surely you must keep something to yourself?

“As a singer-songwriter, I don’t really hide anything. I’ve exposed really vulnerable moments. I’m still very private, especially since I became a parent. I’m often surprised at how often people in the public eye expose their children to the public. I hope that I don’t hide behind anything in my music.”

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Elixir and Michael Leunig’s Gratitude and Grief will be on at The Spiegeltent Hobart on Saturday March 30.

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INTOXICATING “MOST PEOPLE AREN’T INTERESTED IN OLD MUSICAL ARTISTS WHO’VE BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES. I HAVE TO PRESS ON REGARDLESS OF THAT EXPECTATION. I JUST HAVE TO DO MY THING AND BE ENGAGED WITH IT. MIDDLEAGED MEN DOING NEW PROJECTS, ‘OH YEAH, WHO WANTS TO LISTEN TO THAT’ (LAUGHS), THERE’S SO MUCH STUFF OUT THERE. BUT YOU CAN’T WORRY ABOUT THAT. IT DOESN’T REALLY WORRY ME IF THINGS ARE POPULAR OR NOT.”

Mick Harvey has, indeed, been ‘around for decades’, but it’s been a helluva time. In his long and illustrious career, he’s been part of two of Australia’s most renowned punk acts (The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds); written scores for TV, film and theatre; carved out a solid solo career, and produced for acts like Rowland S Howard, PJ Harvey and The Cruel Sea. Now, he’s touring his hit show, Intoxicated Man: The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg.

“It was a long time ago I started work on this project.” he explains. “I left it behind for twenty years and came back to it ‘cause it was fun. It’s a revealing, interesting project; it’s challenging, and continues to be enjoyable to dive into.

The show are fantastic fun and very enjoyable to present.”

Harvey likes to keep busy, for many reasons but chief of which seems to be keep himself, and his fanbase, interested.

“As an artist, you should be working on new things all the time, if you can. That’s part of your job description.

If you’re just sitting there regurgitating the stuff you did years ago ad infinitum, you’re not really challenging yourself with new things. Going into new areas and making new work is part of our obligation. You do end up going over old ground, there’s a lot of things where you go back and revisit work, but ultimately you need to be pushing something new.”

One of Harvey most recent left-of-centre projects was The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War, an examination of the work of WWI poet Edgar Bourchier.

Author Christopher Richard Barker wanted Harvey to help bring to life Bourchier’s writing.

“When he approached me with this stuff, I thought: ‘that looks like something that’s gonna take a lot of commitment to be involved in’ (laughs). He sent me a lot of poems from this collection, connected to the book he’s written, and asked if I could turn some of them into songs.

He loved it and I found I quite enjoyed it too. I was able to dictate the pace at which I worked. I spent a lot of time working on that, producing it, promoting and packaging it.

The album itself is a subject matter that does interest me.

It was something I could get my teeth into.”

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Mick Harvey’s Intoxicated Man is on at the Spiegeltent Hobart on Friday March 29.

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OOZING CONFIDENCE Confidence Man are the best party band in Australia currently. They possess an infectious ‘cool’ vibe that you can’t help but get on board with. Under the personas of Janet Planet, Sugar Bones, Reggie Goodchild and Clarence McGuffie, the group display a confidence, bad-ass, noshits-given version of themselves that all started with messing around.

“We’ve all known each other for years and years.

Reggie and Janet are brother and sister, and Janet and Clarence have been dating for about five years and I’ve just been best mates with them for the last seven years or something I guess. We’re also living together in a house in Brissie. And a couple of us have shared houses

CONFIDENCE MAN ARE EASILY ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE BANDS IN AUSTRALIA CURRENTLY. PRODUCING ‘CONFIDENT MUSIC FOR CONFIDENT PEOPLE’ THE BAND PERFORMS UNDER THE GUISE OF CONFIDENT, BAD-ASS INDIVIDUALS. I HAD A CHAT TO SUGAR BONES ABOUT THE BANDS UPCOMING WINE MACHINE SHOW, NEW MUSIC AND HOW HARD IT IS TO PERFORM AND CREATE THROUGH A PERSONA. over the years and just started making music that was totally different” The group has been praised time and time again for having an incredible live presence. A lot of Australian party music’s currently, is not created for a live show performance. Electronic and techno music dominates the party scene, but then appeared Confidence Man with witty dance moves and a fully choreographed show.

“The choreography seems to happen pretty quickly. We don’t have very high standards, once something works it works and then we just go with that and keep it pretty simple. But the whole mapping out the show, and coming up with all

the gags and putting everything together takes a bit longer, so we spend a lot of time on that, creating the show from start to finish” However, it’s not always easy to maintain a straight-faced persona, especially when playing a character that is exaggerated and really, well, funny! The band do well to keep their cool exterior, but sometimes, as to be expected, they crack. We forgive them though, I doubt I could maintain a straight-face either.

“Sometimes we will start laughing a bit! We try to keep straight faces which is probably the hardest bit, especially when grace and I are doing a stupid dance move like looking right into each other’s eyes and one of us just starts to smile a bit and then the other one starts and that can be kinda tricky but for the most part it’s pretty easy to get in the zone” A Confidence Man show is something that everyone needs to witness at least once. When the band first started performing around Australia, people were generally kinda confused.

There was a cloud of mystique and thoughts about “are these guys being serious??”. As the band has toured AUS for several years now, most people understand it as a performance, however, sometimes people just don’t get it!

We get a full spectrum of reactions. I think people are a bit more used to it now, in Australia, with us playing around for a couple of years, the shock factor has worn off a little bit. But still when were playing overseas we will end up in places and you just never really know which way it’s going to go. Like we did this show in Slovakia and none of us had been there before, no one really knew what the general culture or people were like and we went to this big festival and played this show and it ended up being the most totally rawkus crowd, they loved it, asking for an encore and things. So yeah, it’s really hard to pick whose going to like it and where is going to a bit shocked by it” Wine Machine is a travelling festival in its third year, filled with wine and dancing and overall good vibes, the festival is a perfect fit for Confidence Man. “We’ve known one of the people involved in it for a while now, whose a nice guy whose always looked after us. It’s a nice festival to do! We did one of the Wine Machines either last year or the year before and it’s got a super nice, chill vibe and it doesn’t get as sloppy as Splendour and stuff, still does get pretty sloppy. It’s just a really nice time so we figured we’d go and drink a bunch of wine for a month or two” If one things for sure, the band know how to throw a party, so you know their Wine Machine show is going to be sick.

“A lot of dancing, a lot of frowning, a lot of jumping around, a bit of champagne in the face, That’s about it” MACKENZIE STOLP

See Confidence Man perform at Wine Machine on Saturday March 9 at Home Hill Winery in the Huon Valley. Tickets are available via www.iwannaticket. com.au.

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SELF SABOTAGING GRACE PITTS HAS CERTAINLY FOUND HER VOICE IN THE LAST YEAR, AND WE HAVE A FEELING EVERYBODY WILL KNOW ABOUT IT IN THE COMING ONE. HER EP SELF SABOTAGE IS BRUTAL, MISERABLE AND INCREDIBLE. I TALK TO PITTS ABOUT HER TRANSFORMATION FROM FOLK SINGER TO ELECTRIC-POP GODDESS - NOW KNOWN AS GRAACE.

Grace Pitt’s started her career like any teenager. Doing exams while performing on one of Australia’s biggest talent shows with Delta Goodrem by her side. Ya know, the norm.

Many years have passed since then, and we’ve seen a young folk artist transform into a fierce electronic pop artist who has rebranded to GRAACE.

influences. I was writing folk music and I still love those songs so much and have so much passion toward them! I didn’t want to delete them. I didn’t want to get rid of them, but I felt I was moving onto a different stage of my life and my music that I needed to change the name. it was a completely different era for me.” Says Pitts.

She was 17 years old at the time and Pitts’ tells us that being on The Voice freaked her out.

Contract agreements stated that she couldn’t record music for a year, on top of a new large new fan base, intimidation got the best of her.

“I took a step back and focused on my writing.

Seeing girls kill it when I was too scared to release music, that really helped me just step up,” she says.

Pitt’s debut release as GRAACE was NUMB, a collaboration between herself and Hayden James. The pair will be sharing the stage for Hot Dub Wine Machine; she carefully hints to me that we might get to see them perform the hit single on stage. The likelihood of Pitt doing another collaboration release soon is slim, and with good reason. Pitts says she wants to veer away from feature artist work, wanting to break the mould and be her own force.

“I know when I was sixteen-seventeen writing those songs I had completely different

“It’s been a big part of our project to let everyone know that I was the one that wrote a lot of

[NUMB]. I think we’re trying to just build myself and build the music around me first!” she says.

October last year saw the release of GRAACE’s debut EP Self Sabotage. It’s emotive pop at its absolute finest due to its ferociously honest lyricism and relatability.

“We recorded the whole EP not knowing it was going to be an EP at the time. I just had all these emotional songs. At the time I wasn’t thinking about anyone listening to it. It was such a safe space. When it came to the time of actually releasing it, it was like a completely different point of view that I’d never thought about. I’m so grateful for everyone’s response about it and letting me detail it. I think it’s quite beautiful that everyone is opening up to me because of my own vulnerability and confidence to do that.” She says.

Although the whole EP is brutally intimate, there is one song in particular that I described as ‘something we shouldn’t be listening to’, and Pitt’s agreed. In her track titled Spoken Word, you can hear every ounce of sadness in her voice along side crying and guitar strumming. It’s a raw piece of music that pieces together the whole EP. “The music itself in Spoken Word was therapy for me, I didn’t really make it for anyone else. It was kind of something that people shouldn’t be listening too,” she explains.

“We weren’t going to have it on the EP, but we thought it was just such a special moment in my artistry. It was too special not to put it on, and I think it worked out. I’ve had so many people message me about it, saying it’s their favourite and I think that’s amazing. The original track is probably about 8 minutes long.” She says, before teasing us that there is an unreleased vinyl with the full eight-minute version.

There’s such a strong relatability in Self Sabotage because as it really is an honest take on such a universal stage in your life. That early twenties period, where we all do a bit of self-sabotage to some degree. Pitts says that’s exactly the stage she was in and it’s a habit she is trying to break.

“I still am to be honest struggling with it. I think most people my age do. You get to this mindset and it’s something you automatically go into.

Kind of to protect yourself, or to self-sabotage yourself. I think it’s something I’m still trying to get myself out of, but with all my new music you’ll be able to tell that I’ve moved on, and I’m in a way more positive headspace with myself.”

Clarifies Pitts.

“I think all the stuff that’s been released so far was in a different time of my life and I think that Self Sabotage in that moment was just such a rough time for me. I think that I’ve moved on from that, but I write so much music!

The releases I’ve got this year are not quite as emotional. They’re vulnerable and fiercely honest!”

Pitts has written so much that she says she’s got enough for three EPs. It’s an ever-growing talent that she has had since she was ten years old. Naturally, I wondered what kind of things she was writing back then. “Oh fake love stories, 100%!! I didn’t even have a boyfriend and I was writing about heartbreak! I didn’t even know what it was!” laughs Pitts.

Expected to have a new release in the next coming months, Pitts says she’s busting for it.

“I’m so excited to release [new music]! I can’t wait! We’re just starting to talk about music videos for the next release. I’m such a visual person so I’m so excited!”

KEIRA LEONARD

Graace performs at Wine Machine on Saturday March 9 at Home Hill Winery in the Huon Valley.

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STORYTELLER INSPIRED BY AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF FRIENDS AND HIS HOMETOWN FOLKY PUB SCENE, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ARTIST TIM MOORE SPENDS HIS TIME TRAVELLING THE COUNTRY, SHARING HIS INCREDIBLE SONGWRITING AND STORYTELLING TALENTS WITH CAPTIVATED AUDIENCES. I SPOKE TO TIM ABOUT HIS LATEST ALBUM AND TOURING THE COUNTRY WITH MATE, DANIEL TOWNSEND.

Songs From The Road came out in December, tell us a bit about making the album.

Having sold most of our things and moved into a caravan to travel around Australia with our 3 little kids, we ended up heading to New Zealand where I played a bunch of beautiful shows. We were sitting in the kitchen of our friends’ place on the north coast of NZ and it was forecast to be rainy for the next week, so we decided to record a few of my new songs in the garage. A couple of days later we had recorded 7 performances that really captured the rough weathered spirit of 7 songs. We had kept the album raw and authentic as possible, you can even hear the rain falling gently in the quiet moments, and the result is warmth and honesty, as though the recordings are an extension of the good conversation and genuine friendship that characterised the week.

Storytelling is a significant aspect of your music, why do you think it’s so important?

I think that stories are such an important way of understanding the world and our place in it. Any artist is trying to figure out what it is that makes their work worthwhile, for me it’s finding stories worth telling. It feels like I’m taking part in this ancient tradition of passing the gold you find in the world on to other people. It’s a real privilege, especially when you look out from the stage and see someone with their eyes closed or wiping away some tears - to be part of that is so humbling.

You’re about to go on an Aussie tour with Daniel Townsend, how did you guys meet?

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We actually met briefly many years ago at university but reconnected about 4 years ago and were surprised by how similarly we lived parts of our lives and how much we resonated musically. We have played a bunch of shows together, including a house show where the wall caught on fire, then I caught on fire, then we played a song together! I love the way Daniel captures a whole room with his fierce authenticity.

You’re coming down to play some shows in Hobart and Launceston in March, have you spent much time in Tasmania?

I spent a January in Tasmania a few years ago and just loved it. There’s an ancient beauty there, a harshness of land and a gentleness of people. I have been through a few times playing shows and busking at Salamanca and would move to Hobart in a heartbeat.

What are some of the biggest things you’ve learnt from touring the country?

Be kind. The world will look after you.

Australia is far more complex than it appears. Let the story unfold in the telling.

What’s in store for the rest of the year?

I can’t announce anything officially yet but I’m hoping to get across to New Zealand and the UK later this year and see what happens from there.

HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI

Tim Moore performs at Grinner’s Dive Bar in Hobart on Friday March 8 and the Royal Oak Hotel in Launceston on Saturday March 9.

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THE DEVIL’S MUSIC “HOWLIN’ WOLF WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI, ENDED UP CHICAGO. HIS MOTHER DISOWNED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS PLAYING THE DEVIL’S MUSIC. THERE’S A STORY OF HIM TRAVELLING BACK DOWN TO MISSISSIPPI, MEETING HIS ESTRANGED MOTHER, AND WHEN SHE REJECTED HIM, HE CRIED ALL THE WAY BACK TO CHICAGO.” Dom Turner clearly has never been content to simply have one thing on the go at any given time. You might know him from any of his varied musical projects: his work with The Turner Brown Band, or Supro, or Ian Collard, or Phil Wiggins; rock and roll act The Angry Tradesman; or, of course, his longest-running continuous band, blues band Backsliders, with Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil.) Turner is influenced by a huge number of musical styles, but finds the most joy in songs and sounds from the American South. As evidenced by his long and prolific career in blues, rock and roll, gospel and all manner of genres in between, Turner is hugely interested in the southern sound.

“The appeal for gospel in general, except for a lot of the modern evangelist stuff, it’s noncommercial driven, it’s driven from passion.

The sacred steel musicians I work with, they all come from church and play on the weekend. It’s for the music. There’s a real soul in the music, it’s not structured, like a Beatles song. Gospel has such a strong African-American history, there’s generally such a strong Christian belief in the south. Because of slavery and post-slavery times, people were oppressed and the church was a safe haven. People expressing themselves without fear of reprimand. Christians described

blues musicians as ‘backsliders’, and called blues ‘the devil’s music’. That was a strong belief. Despite that, people did do it, blue musicians were in churches too.”

The multi-instrumental Turner formed Backsliders in 1986, with drummer Hirst and a revolving team of harmonica players (it changes up every gig: it might end up being Brod Smith [Dingoes, Brod Smith’s Big Combo], Ian Collard [Collard, Greens & Gravy] or Joe Glover) joining.

Even with all the musical projects piled up between them, Backsliders have released fourteen albums, including one ‘best of’ and two live albums. At the moment, Turner is juggling new Backsliders gigs and material with other interesting projects. Turner has also become something of an expert on blues and roots, routinely appearing on ABC radio and presenting music workshops at festivals and workshops all over the world.

“There’s a few international collaborations; Phil Wiggins from Washington DC, we’ve done quite a few tours in Australia. That project is the Mississippi style, a lot to do with improvisation, so there’s not much to prepare. More of a mindset than anything else. People become overly reliant on structure. You don’t really have to, you’d be surprised what the human mind can come up with.”

“The Turner Brown Band, from Toledo, Ohio, who play a style of music called ‘sacred steel’. That’s all about lap steel guitars, the sound comes from church music. The great thing about working with Backsliders is we all have other projects; Rob has various other things, including Midnight Oil obviously; we both feel like we come back fresh after doing other things. Everything sort of filters into everything else. The great thing about working for so many years in this band, you don’t get stale, making the same album for thirty years. That’s a big part of how it all holds together.”

Although the details are still in the drafts stage at the moment, and both guys have their other projects (as well as Midnight Oil, Hirst is in Ghostwriters with Hoodoo Gurus bassist Rick Grossman, and The Break, with Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie and Hunters & Collectors trumpet player Jack Howard) you can expect a new Backsliders album in the near future.

“We’re about to start a new album, we’ve been writing for that. We haven’t started recording yet, but we will soon- can already feel a lot of those outside influences coming in. The directions are not one hundred percent clear at this stage.

Everything we do comes from a blues base, and a lot of improvisation comes into the songwriting process. It’s a little bit early at the moment to work out a ‘vibe’.”

LISA DIB

Backsliders play the Forth Valley Blues Festival in Forth on Saturday March 16, and the Republic Bar in Hobart as an afternoon show on Sunday March 17.

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DOUBLE TROUBLE Sisters Savannah and Briony, better known as Kinder, have had a massive past 12 months, making fans all over the country and the world thanks to their impressive DJ sets and the release of their own original tracks. I asked Kinder about returning to Tassie, their musical background and working with family.c You’ve had a killer past year; did you ever think you would end up here when you first started DJing?

Savannah: It was always our main goal to play lots of festivals and shows but it was hard to imagine it would actually come true. We were more than happy to be playing at the local pub in our home town let alone playing to thousands of people at a festival. We pinch ourselves a little when DJing or singing on stage.

You just played Party In The Paddock in Tasmania, what are you most looking forward to about coming back down for Wine Machine in March?

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Savannah: We love Tasmania SO MUCH! We have such a soft spot for that place. They always make us feel so welcome and really support us down there. Party in The Paddock Is one of the funnest festivals to play, such great energy and we can’t wait to play Wine Machine Down there because it’s always such a vibe.

You grew up in a very musical family, who would you say are your biggest influences?

Briony: Our mum is very musical, not so much our dad... although he is not too bad at the bongos. Growing up we listened to a lot of Bob Marley and Michael Jackson because our dad had it on repeat, however our mum had us listening to The Cure, Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie. We grew to love all of these artists.

Have you come across any challenges to working so closely with a sibling?

Savannah: Not really actually! We are kind of like the same person and mostly agree on everything when it comes to music. Which is rare! We fight about little things like any other sisters, but we are lucky in the fact we are so in tune with each other when it comes to music and performing.

Briony: Umm lol, that’s a very nice answer from Savannah. I would say we do get on each other’s nerves a bit and need our space because not only do we work together we live together! But she is right when she says we are in tune, we have such similar ideas and taste when it comes

to music so it’s usually the two of us together disagreeing with someone external.

Your most recent track is “Something More”, what’s the song about?

Savannah: This song is really about embracing the little things in life, not focussing too much on the materialistic things. It’s about appreciating the people surrounding you and the love we feel. It’s also about appreciating natures beauty.

Although this is easier said than done.

Any plans for more new music soon?

Savannah: Yes! We are really excited about the next track we are putting out!

What can people expect from your set at Wine Machine?

Briony: Lots of dance chorey, singing our singles live, maybe our new unreleased one, a cover of a classic 2010 tune and lots of dance classics in our set.

Holly Leszczynski

Kinder play Wine Machine in the Huon Valley on Saturday March 9. Tickets from www.iwannaticket. com.au.

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN HAILING FROM BYRON BAY, KYLE LIONHART WILL BE BRINGING HIS SOULFUL, FOLK TUNES TO HOBART IN MARCH WHEN HE PLAYS DAY ON THE LAWN. I HAD A CHAT TO KYLE ABOUT HIS INFLUENCES, RECORDING HIS DEBUT ALBUM IN NASHVILLE AND RETURNING TO TASMANIA.

You’re from Byron Bay, do you think that environment has had a big influence on your sound?

Nah, I think Byron has a very kind of happy, laidback, beachy vibe and I don’t think my music really represents that at all. I don’t really write music when I’m in a happy place, I always kind of write music when I’m in a sad place, cause when I’m happy, I’m kinda too busy being happy. So yeah, I don’t think it really has affected my music or really influenced my music at all.

Do you have any particular artists or influences that you always find yourself going back to?

Yep, I think Jeff Buckley, ever since I first got introduced to his music, I think I was 19, around the same time I decided I was gonna start singing. He was the one that kinda, I guess, motivated me to sing because I’d never heard a voice, or a male sing like he did. He’s been and probably always will be one of the biggest influences and inspirations for me.

You’ve been in Nashville recording your album, what was that experience like?

It was both challenging and incredibly, I guess, awakening in a way. I was working with some really great producers that, I’ve liked their stuff for a long time, I think that itself was pretty incredible, the chance to work with these guys. And then being in Nashville. We were living and recording in the same space, so we were just immersed in this record for six whole weeks, every single day. The experience was quite different to how I recorded

WORLDS APART AFTER TWO YEARS ON THE ROAD, AUSSIE SINGER/SONGWRITER JULIA JACKLIN HAS FOLLOWED UP HER 2016 DEBUT WITH SECOND RECORD, CRUSHING. I CHATTED TO JULIA ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM, WORKING WITH PRODUCER BURKE REID AND LIFE ON TOUR.

Congratulations on the album! Did making this album feel very different to the first time around?

Yep, very different. Just completely worlds apart I think. The first one was very, it was my first one, so I didn’t have a label or a manager or anyone and I wasn’t a full-time musician at all. I was just kinda working and saved my money to go make it and didn’t really know what I was doing.

Second albums can be daunting, did you feel confident going into it?

I felt fine, like I love writing songs and I think for me, I did my best on my first record and I did my best that I could on this record. I was just trying to make a record that I liked I guess, instead of trying to make a record that I thought people might like who liked my first record. Which is kind of an impossible thing to gauge really.

Burke Reid produced the record, how was that experience?

Great, yeah, he’s a legend. He’s just incredibly dedicated to the craft I guess, very non-showy guy. He’s done a lot of really impressive stuff, but you would never catch him talking about it. We basically had to drag him away from the control desk most nights, most mornings, because he kind of gets tunnel vison, which is incredible as an artist to have someone who kind of shuts the rest of their life out for you; pretty rare.

You’ve mentioned that it’s really important to hear everything for the whole record without too many studio tricks, is that something you look for in the music you listen to?

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my last stuff. It was incredible, it was something that I think I felt like, I really understood what it was to get to places that were both very uncomfortable but very, I guess, life changing in a way.

You’re coming down to Hobart to play Day On The Lawn in March, have you spent much time in Tasmania?

Yeah, I’ve done a few shows now, I think this is like my fourth or fifth time returning. I always love it, it’s always such a beautiful experience. I don’t think I’ve ever had a show down there where I’ve felt like, a bit weird, I feel like everybody down in Tasmania really appreciates the people and the musicians that come down there. Cause I know a lot of people that tour Australia often miss Tasmania, so yeah, I always love returning there. I think people really appreciate it when you make the effort to get down there and they really show it when you’re playing to them. I’m excited to be returning again.

What are your goals for 2019?

I guess for me it’s just to get this new music out and get it to as many people as we possibly can. That’s my main goal at the moment, I’m just very focussed on getting it out and performing it, working out my live show so I can perform it in the best way possible, that’s gonna be both exciting and captivating for the audience.

HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI

Kyle lionhart will perform at Day On The Lawn on Saturday March 23. Tickets available from Oztix.

I think that’s the reason why I wanted to do it because that’s the music I like, well at the moment anyway. I listen to a broad range of stuff, but I find that the stuff that hits me the hardest is where you can kind of hear the person in the room when you put the headphones on, you can kind of hear them breathing and you can hear the sounds of the instruments. I guess the nature of the songs felt like they needed to be not covered up too much with production.

What are some of the biggest things being on tour for two years taught you?

You’ve gotta have a real balance between making sure that you’re kinda present and making sure that you do socialise, but also not socialising every night and knowing when to pull back, when to have space, when to go to bed. Because, when you realise you’re going on a month-long tour, you’ve gotta pace yourself otherwise you run out of steam. Just knowing when the party is over, which is kind of hard for a lot of people.

You’re coming down to Hobart to play the Spiegeltent, what can people expect from the show?

Haven’t really played this record yet so it’s gonna be a new experience for all involved, but I’ve got the whole band who I made the record with on the road.

HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI

See Julia Jacklin at the Hobart Spiegeltent on Tuesday March 12. Tickets available via the website – www.spiegeltenthobart.com.

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AND WHO COULD FORGET DEAR RATDOG NO DOUBT YOU KNOW THE NAME ALEX DYSON. EITHER YOU USED TO LISTEN TO HIM ON TRIPLE J, YOU’VE SEEN HIM DJ’ING YOUR FAVOURITE PARTY, OR YOU MIGHT HAVE EVEN WATCHED HIM HOST YOUR FAVOURITE FESTIVAL. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HE’S DOING AT THIS YEAR’S WINE MACHINE. I HAD A CHAT TO ALEX ABOUT HOSTING AND ALL IT ENTAILS.

First off, how did you land the job of hosting at Wine Machine?

The organisers probably saw a video of me dj-ing with a goon box on my head as a viking helmet and thought “this guy fits the brief perfectly” What does hosting actually mean? What will your role be?

“The main role of the host is to make sure everyone’s glasses are filled and to keep a look out to make sure the grown ups aren’t coming home early to bust up the party. I might also be getting on the mic a bit and playing some songs.

Is hosting events something you’ve done much of before? Or are you drawing from you radio skills?

I hosted with Groovin the Moo one year and had an excellent time. The radio experience comes in super handy when you don’t know how to mix two songs together properly so instead you just let it finish, talk a bit, then press play on the next one. Seamless.

How is hosting a live event different from being on the radio? Do you prepare differently?

It’s a lot scarier because you can see the faces of the people who can hear you so when you say a terrible joke it’s a lot more humiliating.

What is the best way to pump up a crowd?

I’ve been dj-ing for about 4 years now.

I got into it after Nina Las Vegas taught me some moves at the triple j christmas party.

Will there be a chance for you to show off your DJ skills at Wine Machine?

If not, then I’ll just have to show off my beatboxing. But the organisers are scared of that happening so they’ll probably let me.

What have you got lined up for in the future? More hosting work perhaps?

Yeah, some sweaty DJ sets are currently in the pipeline, plus a little MTV hosting spot which hasn’t been announced yet so shhhhh.

Who are you most keen to see at Wine Machine?

Believe it or not I haven’t seen Hayden James live so I’m super pumped for that. Plus I have huge respect for the confidence man dance moves, so will be sidestage taking notes on that I reckon.

How would you persuade someone to come along to Wine Machine?

I would say something like they’re guaranteed to have a grape time. Then I would laugh and take a sip of my pinot noir. Then they’d be like, “this guy sucks, but The Presets are awesome so I’m going.”

MACKENZIE STOLP

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You recently got into DJ-ing, how did that come about?

ONE OF A KIND SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST DANIEL CHAMPAGNE IS CONSIDERED A LEADING LIGHT IN ACOUSTIC MUSIC, TOURING THE WORLD SINCE LEAVING SCHOOL AT 18. TAKING HIS TALENTS ON THE ROAD AGAIN, DANIEL WILL BE RETURNING TO TASMANIA AS PART OF HIS LARGEST TOUR TO DATE. I SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HIS CLASSICAL TRAINING, RELOCATING TO NASHVILLE AND NEW MUSIC.

With a background in classical music, Australian artist Daniel Champagne acknowledges the impact it has on the way he makes music since transitioning to a more folk, blues sound.

“I think it has a lot of impact on me, technique wise. I’m certainly not composing classical music anymore but there are a lot of those lessons still in the hands that I still use, just in a more contemporary way. As a teenager I was just looking for music that sounded a bit more like me. Classical guitar is beautiful, but people have been studying it for centuries which has meant there’s just not that many sounds left to make your own. Playing folk/blues, I find there’s a little more space and room to move into.”

When it comes to influences and inspiration, Daniel keeps it simple.

“I think just life, people and places. I get to travel a lot all over the world and everyone I meet comes with their own story. Every now and then one of them just sticks to you as something worth writing about.”

Having now relocated to North America, Daniel reflects on the differences between the music scenes in Nashville and Australia.

See Alex “Ratdog” Dyson perform at Wine Machine and then the afterparty at The Odeon Theatre Mez Bar.

“I guess it’s a lot bigger and there (Nashville), you have people from all over the world who have come in with a lot of ambition trying to make something happen, so there’s probably a bit more of a competitive edge than back home.

For me though, I’m mostly in the US just because there are a lot more places to play music and Nashville is more of just a base for me that I use to tour out from.”

About to embark on his biggest tour yet, Daniel will be coming down to Tasmania to play some shows in April.

“I’m really excited to be getting to so many places this time. Favourite towns and venues from over the years plus a lot of new ones for me! I love coming to Tassie and have made the trip at least once a year since I started out touring.

Tasmanian music lovers are just some of my favourites and I’m excited to get to the West Coast for the first time on this trip, starting the tour in Queenstown!”

Finding time in-between touring the world, Daniel is beginning to work on new music.

“I am slowly starting to work on the next album. It gets hard with so much touring but there’s a whole new bunch of songs that have come along. I’m going to do my best to play them all on the Australian tour.”

HOLLY LESZCZYNSKI

Playing five shows in Tasmania, the tour begins in Queenstown on April 2, followed by Hobart, Launceston, Sheffield and Cygnet.

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HYPNOTIC JAZZ

“I met Tony [Buck, drums] when I was at high school, and met Lloyd [Swanton, bass/double bass] year after I left high school.” Abrahams explains. “I played in a band with Lloyd until about ‘86 and played with Tony in various outfits.

When we got together in 1986, we formed the group and officially The Necks got together in 1986. For the first year or so, we didn’t really play in public. We had a rehearsal room at the University of Sydney and met once a week and developed the idea we wanted to work on. In 1987 we started playing!”

There’d been other bands before this: Abrahams had been part of dance-pop band Sparklers, Benders and Laughing Clowns; Buck had had several projects (Women and Children First, Tango Bravo, Pardon Me Boys); Swanton had been in Dynamic Hepnotics. But by 1989, The Necks’ debut album Sex was released, and the band had more than found their groove. Now, they’re masters in their field. The New York Times have called them ‘the greatest trio on Earth’.

“We wanted to really let things evolve at their own pace and not push anything. We felt that we could make music that’s not really determined by anyone’s subjectivity. It’s not governed by any subjectivity, really. We were making objective music. The three of us are responsible for it; the end result is the sum of its parts, that was the belief. We’ve remained quite true to this, we don’t get in the way of where it’s gonna go.

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SYDNEY IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ TRIO THE NECKS HAVE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN LINED UP WHEN THEY PLAY MONA THIS MONTH. THE BAND’S PIANIST, CHRIS ABRAHAMS, DISCUSSES HOW MUCH LOCATION AND ‘VIBE’ CAN AFFECT A PERFORMANCE, AND THE UNDERGROUND, CREATIVE, SOMETIMES BIZARRE VIBE OF MONA SEEMS LIKE A PLACE FULL OF INSPIRATION. THE BAND WILL RETURN TO MONA TO CELEBRATE THEIR TWENTIETH RECORD, BODY, RELEASED LAST YEAR. BUT FIRST, WE GO BACK, TO THE 1980S, WHEN THREE SYDNEY LADS MET AND DECIDED TO FORM A BAND.

We get the music started, and then we steer it- wherever it goes, it goes, no one’s really in control of that. The ethos is just to let one thing lead to another, let the music develop in its own way.”

“Prior to The Necks, I thought you get up on stage and present music you’ve composed, in a competent sort of way, and the audience responds, often to a work ethic. With The Necks, we don’t compose music. We’re informed by what the music is doing. We’re very much against verbalisation; we have conversations before we go on stage, but we never prescribe what we’re gonna do. We might talk after.”

Since their 1989, the band have released fifteen studio albums, four live albums and a film soundtrack (The Boys, 1998), the latter of which was nominated for a Best Soundtrack Album ARIA, AFI Best Musical Score and Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award. Speaking of awards, the band have won two Best Jazz Album ARIAs: one for Drive By in 2004 and another for Chemist in 2006.

As mentioned, the band are heavily influenced by their surroundings. Such would be an expected result of making improvisational music; one must funnel their mood and surrounding energy into the music that manifests. But they’re damn good at it: fans have often dubbed the band ‘trance jazz’, thanks to the layered, intensifying and lugubrious tunes. Having played together for

around thirty years now, it’s safe to assume the members are all on each other’s wavelengths.

“I’d say our music is very site specific. A part of the commotion is us responding to the space.

To a certain extent, the vibe of the place is very important, as well as the acoustic properties, the quality of the instruments we play, the production, all these factors really determine what’s gonna happen when we play. We’re not going about it scientifically, we’ll start playing and certain things will start happening that will inform us on a non-verbal, innate level. I would include psychological or vibe elements.”

“Hopefully every time we play, we present a new experience to people.”

LISA DIB

The Necks play at MONA in Hobart on Wednesday March 13. For more information head to www.mona. net.au.

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BECOMES DUST

CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCENORTH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KYLE PAGE HAS A REAL PLACE IN HIS HEART FOR HOBART. “Hobart is my favourite city in the county, possibly the world. Every time I’ve landed, it feels familiar. I don’t get that in many places. I’ve got no connections to Hobart really, it just feels as though I’m coming home. Beautiful friends, food, wine and the natural environment is stunning; it always feels as though the pace is about right.”

“I was born in Lismore and moved around a bit, ended up in Dubbo, where I had my first interaction with dancing, and was accepted as the first white kid to join Jengarra, an Indigenous dance group. I have a lot of personal and professional relationships with Indigenous people now, but I didn’t carry the broader context of what that means when I was ten. At fourteen, I was dancing full-time, doing a course; once I’d done Years Eleven and Twelve, I took a few months off.

My course was really heavily slanted towards classical ballet and, at that point, my interest in ballet dissolved, and an audition for Dancenorth came up! I was fortunate to have not gone to university (laughs), I rolled softly into a job with Dancenorth for four years.”

“My younger sisters were both dancing, doing jazz and tap and contemporary at the local dance school. I think I always gravitated to the company of the girls or women, I connected with women a bit more. Maybe I was a bit less of a ruffian than the boys in school, which motivated me to continue dancing. Being the only male dancer in this dance studio, there’s a lot of support and encouragement. That enabled me to continue pursuing things; I’ve got some amazingly vivid memories of being a young kid and practicing really daggy jazz routines out the back on the grass (laughs)” Page also found a kindred personal and professional spirit in his wife and collaborative partner, Amber Haines, with whom he has directed three full-length works.

“Amber and I started making work of our own, and then the job for Artistic Director at Dancenorth came up in 2014, and I felt like it was worth throwing my hat in the ring. I wasn’t expecting to get the job, but I felt like the experience was really valuable. Every time I walked myself out of to the edge of familiarity, I always seem to catch myself in a place that feels interesting. I’ve been cultivating that sense of...foolishness? In a wonderful way. Putting myself in situations that are unfamiliar and uncomfortable.”

Dust is Page’s most recent project, having debuted in Brisbane in September last year. ‘A mesmerising study of human potential’ (with live violin by Canada’s Jessica Moss [Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, 22

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photo credit - Amber Haines

He’s right to love Hobart, and right to be excited to visit: his latest dance work Dust will be on as part of the Ten Days on the Island Festival. Page found his footing (tish-boom) in dance at a young age, with fond memories of movement and dance some of his earliest.

Black Ox Orkestar]), Dust was inspired by the birth of Kyle and Amber’s son, Jasper.

“While we were beginning the conceptualization, we found out that Amber was pregnant, and we started unpacking the world in which he was to be born. The systems and structures we so readily default to expect. Questions we ask and don’t ask, like, who designed those systems and structures? We were very curious about the things that would shape Jasper’s experience on the planet, how we could prepare him to be a future custodian of the planet.”

“Once we cracked that conversation open with the dancers and the creative team, it resonated with people so deeply.

Throughout history, lots of things have been repeated; divisions, walls, borders, opportunities, there’s a cyclic nature to many of the experiences of humanity. We carry things with us long after the actual structure or system is removed.”

“We’re so different but have a lot of respect for one another.” Page says, on his wife and creative right-hand.

“The best thing that ever happened to our collaboration was spending time in India; we had the most violently intense, provocative three months of our lives, and that seemed to shake up a lot of our reactivity. That was amazing. We make sure the ideas resonate with both of us.

We’re one another’s sounding board, each other’s biggest supports but also biggest critics.”

LISA DIB Dust will be performed as part of Ten Days on the Island, Friday March 22 to Sunday March 24 at The Don Bosco Creative Arts Centre, Glenorchy. Head to the Ten Days On The Island website for times and further details.

Arts

Gallery Guide

performing arts Guide

South

SOUTH

Colville Gallery March 5 Colville Fine Art Auction March 8 Jerzy Michalski March 29 Chen Ping Handmark Gallery March 1 – March 26 New Paintings and Jewellery – Nathan Grey + Megan Perkins March 29 – April 22 New Paintings and Jewellery – Adrian Barber + Janine Combes Despard Gallery Until March 3 The Wanderer, The Fool, and The Refuge – Jo Chew March 6 – March 31 Time Traveller – Michael Vale Bett Gallery Until March 9 The Unfinished Print – Raymond Arnold Until March 9 The Infrastructure of Life – Locust Jones March 15 – March 30 Michael Schlitz March 15 – March 30 David Stephenson Salamanca Arts Centre Lightbox March 1 – March 31 A Real Ruby | Portal to Vesuvio – Ariel Ruby | Ariel Mather Palmese Top Gallery March 4 – March 31 Biomimicry – A Study – Anastasia Gardyne Studio Gallery March 2 – April 13 Tasmanian Infrared Landscapes – Jenifer O’Connell Long Gallery March 9 – March 24 Eyes As Big As Plates – Ten Days on The Island Sidespace Gallery Until March 12 Abstracting Time III – Abstracting Time March 14 – March 26 Colours of Tasmania – Hannah Blackmore Contemporary Art Tasmania Until July 19 Dirty Paper – Matt Coyle, Joel Crosswell, Tom O’Hern, Lucienne Rickard and Andrew Harper with works by Andrew Clifford and Rodney Febey.

March 16 – April 21 Shotgun 7: Increase Productivity – Grace Herbert TMAG Until March 3 The Mission – Michael Cook Until May 5 Dinosaur rEvolution: Secrets of Survival

NORTH Handmark Evandale Until March 6 New Paintings – Mairi Ward March 10 – April 3 Handmark Artists – Landscape Exhibition Burnie Arts & Function Centre Until March 17 Painted Cliffs and Other Visual Magic – Con Rhee Until March 17 People of Passion - Grant Wells Until March 17 A Visual and Spoken Journey – Men With Heart

Until March 24 Prosthetic Reality March 22 – May 5 Burnie Print Prize 2019 Gallery Pejean Until March 30 Landscapes 2019 – Group Exhibition Devonport Regional Gallery Main Gallery Until March 3 North West Art Circle Annual Community Art Exhibition & Awards March 8 – March 11 Here She Is – Ten Days on The Island March 16 – May 5 The Nightingale and the Rose – Del Kathryn Barton Little Gallery Until March 10 Facing Our Past - The Robinson Youth Takeover March 16 – March 19 Placing Things – Kelly Austin Upper Gallery March 2 – June 2 Littoral Sawtooth ARI Gallery March 1 - March 31 Front Gallery RTM (How we remember) - Deborah Malor & Vicki Tolman.

Middle Gallery The stuff within, the stuff in doubt – Millie Francis Project Gallery The room also breathes – Priscilla Beck

COMEDY The Polish Corner March 6 Gerard McGowan March 13 Bob Franklin March 20 Claire Hooper March 27 Mick Meredith

The Pickled Frog March 17 Frog Comedy

Brisbane Hotel March 14 Raw Comedy Final March 28 CULT Comedy

THEATRE

Wrest Point Showroom March 23 Tahir – You had ONE job!

Hobart Brewing Co March 21 Clubhouse Comedy

Hobart Spiegeltent March 26 Carlotta: Queen of the Cross March 28 Stardust – The Songs of Willie Nelson

Hobart Spiegeltent March 8 Will Anderson: Will-informed March 9 Paul Foot: Image Conscious March 13 Paul Mcdermott & Steven Gates March 14 Joel Creasey: Drink. Slay.

Repeat.

March 15 & 16 Judith Lucy: Judith Lucy vs Men March 17 Charlie Pickering: Us & Them March 19 Tommy Little: Self-diagnosed Genius March 20 Dave Hughes: Hairy March 24 Tom Gleeson: Joy March 27 John Safron: Jew Detective – Sarcasm is not a Crime.

March 31 The Wine Bluffs: Damian Callinan & Paul Calleja

Peacock Theatre Until March 2 Spring Awakening March 10 Kabaret Dietrich March 22 – March 30 The Mares

Brick Factory March 13 Laughs On Tap

Hobart Spiegeltent March 16 Moonlight Aviators: Squeezebox Cabaret March 7 – March 31 Deluxe Deluxe March 26 Carlotta: Queen of the Cross

Pancho Villa March 12 Side Splitting Comedy

Kelly’s Garden March 2 Physical Theatre with Bella Young The Founders Room March 9 No Regrets: The Edith Piaf Story Wrest Point Entertainment Centre March 30 An Evening with Sir Ranulph Fiennes CABARET

DANCE Supported by 2019 Cabaret Show Sponsor

Hobart Spiegeltent March 21 & 23 Djuki Mala

NORTH COMEDY

CANDY B

AUSTRALIAN BOOTY Friday 29 March, 8pm EARL ARTS CENTRE

Boags Brewery Bar March 15 Fresh Comedy Red Brick Road Ciderhouse March 13 InCider Comedy Saint John Craft Beer March 27 Homebrew Comedy THEATRE Tamar Island Wetlands Reserve March 13 – March 17 Stompin’ Earl Arts Centre March 29 Australian Booty – Candy B March 2 Raw4! Winner’s Concert

A sumptuous hour of stories, jokes, music and, of course, BOOTY SHAKING!

Princess Theatre March 2 Nashville Live March 14 – March 30 Strictly Ballroom – The Musical

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Burnie Arts & Function Centre March 9 – March 11 Ten Days on the Island – Out of Chaos...

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Paranaple Arts Centre March 3 Nashville Live March 21 An Evening with Mem Fox March 29 Stardust – The Songs of Willie Nelson

Theatre North Inc. trading as Theatre North at the Princess. 57 Brisbane Street Launceston

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Event Guide

Hobart Date

Venue

Venue

Acts / Start Time

MARCH

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Nik Berechee

Friday

The Brunswick Hotel

Isaac Westwood 7pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy Whitton 9pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring Tim Chivers, Eve Gowen, Liam Johnston 8pm

8

Birdcage Bar

Tezmond 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Blue Chilli 6pm

Sunday

9

10

Date

Thursday

14

Brisbane Hotel

Moonglue (EP Launch), Subdivision, Big Al’s, Violet & Le Sauvage

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Cascade Brewhouse

Miss Jones Plays 4pm

Central Hotel

M.T. Blues Music 4pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Toby Beard 8:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Benjamin Beilman: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Ruby Austin-Lund 6:30pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Almost Cut My Hair 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Coyote Serenade 6pm

Grand Poobah

Saturday

Acts / Start Time

Rain Dance: Benefit gig for the Tasmanian Bush Fires 9pm

Friday

15

Grand Poobah

DJ Popsie Cool, DJ Thensum, St. Nick, Cheeky E, DJ Pressed, DJ Mix & DJ Jamm DNB

Brisbane Hotel

Lazer Baby

Grinners Dive Bar

Tim Moore & Daniel J Townsend 8:30pm

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Hotel SOHO

Aaron Courtney 6:30pm

Copping Hall

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Jo Jo Smith, Lucie Thorne & Claire Anne Taylor 7:30pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Hobart Brewing Co

A. Swayze & The Ghosts, VOIID, Crocodylus 8pm

Hobart Twilight Market (Long Beach)

Lauren O’Keefe, Matthew Barker (QLD), Henry Rippon 4:30pm

Hotel SOHO

The Matt & Nate Show 7:30pm

Jack Greene

Sean Hall Duo

Jimmy D’s

M.T. Blues Music 5:30pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Rektango

Live Music

Republic Bar & Cafe

Chillinit + Wombat + $40 10pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Tasha Zappala 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Got Your Six

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan Warwarek & Alan Welsh 6pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke – all-girl house band! 8Pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon, Zac Henderson 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Brad Gillies (Single Launch) 6:30pm

Wrest Point Showroom

The Linda Ronstadt Songbook

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Ghetto Space Rocket, Toothless Crack Jaw, Chicken Liver Lips

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Grand Poobah

New Horizons presets Turner Street Sound / RAS / MT

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Jay Jarome 9:30pm

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Harry Edwards Trio 9pm

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mephistopheles, Knife Hands & More TBA 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

The Live Wires

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Kim Churchill 8:30pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton & The Swingcats 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Liv & Sean 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Steve Young 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Frank’s Cider

M.T. Blues Music 1:30pm

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood Aaron Courtney

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Rektango

Live Music

Republic Bar & Cafe

International Womens Day Lady Line-Up – Yoni + The Steamers, The Cool Beanz, The Crystelles, Samara Cullen, Kat Edwards, Danah & Mardia 10pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Dylan Eynon 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

The Brunswick Hotel

Tom Booth 6pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke – all-girl house band! 8Pm

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe, Saucy Jack & His Ripper Band 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Ville Karvonen 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Neon Acoustic 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Pretty Dirty, Hard Rubbish, Electronic Girl Epic, Late Night Krackieoke

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Sideways in the City

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Longley International Hotel

M.T. Blues Music 12pm

MONA

Kim Imber 1pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Odeon Theatre

Wine Machine After Party 10pm

Onyx Bar

Darlings 9:30pm

Saturday

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Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

Prince of Wales Hotel

GFB 9pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

TBA 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

The Brunswick Hotel

Dave West 7:30pm

The Whaler

Billy Whitton & The Swingcats 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Rod Murray 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Conn O’Neill 4pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bo Jenkins (Vic)

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Devil’s Corner Vineyard

Kim Imber 12pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Blue Flies 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

Paddy Wagon Hotel and Bistro

Room For a Pony

Fleetmac Wood

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Sunday

17

Monday

11

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Backsliders 2:30pm

Tuesday

12

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Clinton Hutton 8:30pm

The Duke

Dukebox Audition Jam

Monday

18

Republic Bar & Cafe

Jasper Jones 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Montz Matsumoto 8pm

Tuesday

19

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM

Grand Poobah

Irish Murphy’s

Furphy 9pm

Fat Freddy’s Drop AFTER PARTY with Swaz & The Benjamins

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Foley Artists 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Tommyhawks 8:30pm

Wednesday

24

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Date Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

20

21

22

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Venue

Acts / Start Time

The Duke Brisbane Hotel

Jazz Jam 7:30pm

Post Street Social

Terry Nomikos

PRISM w/ Iciclan

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Beths (NZ) 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

Clover Hitch 9pm

Monday

Odeon Theatre

Fat Freddy’s Drop 8pm

Tuesday

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Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

26

Bright Eyes Cafe

Mostly Acoustic Jam Session 7pm

Republic Bar & Cafe Telegraph Hotel

Matthew Barker 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Sam Forsyth 8pm

DJ Nik Berechee

The Duke

Local Act 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Sam Forsyth 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

PRISM

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives and his Big Band

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring Cas O’Keefe, Amy Pegg (LAUN), Joe Kallman (LAUN) 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Ani & Harry 9pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Unlocked – Open Mic Night 6pm

Telegraph Hotel

DJ Nik Berechee

The Brunswick Hotel

Grand Poobah

Karaoke 9pm

Karly Fisher 6:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy featuring Rosie Canndee, Crystal Sky, Katie Wilson 8pm

The Duke

Duke Trivia 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Samuel Bester 9pm

Jack Greene Republic Bar & Cafe

Isaac Westwood

Grand Poobah

Karaoke 9pm

Lou Bradley & Phil 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Isaac Westwood

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton and Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

The McLeans 8:30pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

The Duke

Jay Jarome 7:30pm

The Homestead

M.T. Blues Music 8pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Bridget Pross 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Slim Dime 6pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Tassie Devil’s Own 6pm

Brisbane Hotel

(Front Bar) Oddling

Brisbane Hotel

(Beer Garden) Milquebarth/Brainfoetus, Java Fonda, Electronic Girl Epic

Brisbane Hotel

(Back Bar) Jesterpose, Sleaze

Cargo

DJ Sexy Lucy

Central Hotel

Hannah May 4pm

Federation Concert Hall

Pirates in the House 6pm

Grand Poobah

Dirt Hands & Friends

Jack Greene

Westwood & Doyle

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Rektango

Live Music

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission 9:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Saturday

Sunday

23

24

Date

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

27

28

29

(Back Bar) Tropical Fuck Storm (Vic), ALL The Weathers

Brisbane Hotel

(Front Bar) The Prickly Grapes, Teens

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Central Hotel

Matthew Barker 4pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams

Nadira and Friends 9pm

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Finn Seccombe 7:30pm

Post Street Social

Simon Hall

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

Rektango

Live Music

The Brunswick Hotel

Dave West 6pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Roadkill & Supports 10pm

The Duke

Tasmanian Inn Hotel

Sambo 7:30pm

The Duchesses of The Duke – all-girl house band! 8Pm

Telegraph Hotel

Midnight Valentine

The Whaler

Patrick Berechree, Zac Henderson 7:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Tim Davies 6pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Blue Chili (5 piece jazz) 6:30pm

All Saints Market

Miss Jones Plays, Jackson Simpson, Bryce Tilyard 10:30am

Birdcage Bar

Isaac Westwood 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Paper Souls, Yoni and The Steamers, The Broken Girls Club Band

Cargo

DJ Rikin

Grand Poobah

Damon Palermo & Rainbow Trout

Grand Poobah

Afterparty for Session B. and New Horizons River Cruise

Irish Murphy’s

Machine 13 10:30pm

Jack Greene

Matt & Abby

Hobart Uni Bar

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks 8pm

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

Dan Vandermeer 9:30pm

Post Street Social

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Outfit 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Pocket Rockett

The Brunswick Hotel

Jay Jarome Trio 7:30pm

The Waratah Hotel

Chase City 8pm

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Jacob Boote 9pm

Bright Eyes Cafe

Slim Dime 4:30pm

The Duke

The Duchesses of The Duke – all-girl house band! 8Pm

The Whaler

Tasha Zappala, Saucy Jack & His Ripper Band 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

The McCleans 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sticks & Kane 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Scoparia, Lunar Rampage

Cargo

DJ Millhouse

Globe Hotel

Saturday Night Rewind 8pm

Grand Poobah

I Love Dancehall in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Sideways in the City

Jack Greene

Sean Hall Duo

Observatory

DJ B-Rex

Onyx Bar

The 50/50 9:30pm

Post Street Social

Gabriele

Republic Bar & Cafe

JEZZAS FAREWELL!! free feast & entertainment (not from Jez, we promise) 3pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Boil Up 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Serotonin

The Brunswick Hotel

Dan Vandermeer 7:30pm

The Whaler

Finny’s Fish Fry 9pm

Saturday

Sunday

30

31

Wrest Point Entertainment Centre

The Kings of Rock and Soul

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Birdcage Bar

Presidential Suite 9pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Bright Eyes Cafe

Ross Sermons & G B Balding 4pm

Post Street Social

Isaac Westwood

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Cafe

Mumbo Gumbo 2:30pm

Moonah Arts Centre

M.T. Blues Music 3:25pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

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Launceston / NORTH WEST Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

Joe Di Sario 8pm

Kingsway Bar

Seth Henderson 8:30pm

The Greenwood Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

The Royal Oak

Daniel Townsend (Public Bar) 9pm

MARCH Saturday

Sunday

9

10

Watergarden

Addison Marshall 8pm

Bakers Lane

Obsidian Music & Art Festival 11pm

Mudbar Restaurant

Scott Lewis Live 3:30pm

Royal Park

Obsidian Music & Art Festival 11:45am

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

The Royal Oak

LBC Jammers Band (Oak Shed) 2pm

Wednesday

13

The Royal Oak

Andy Collins (Public Bar) 9pm

Thursday

14

Albert Hall

TSO – Peter And The Wolf

Molly Malones

Tassie Tour: Rhyley McGrath (VIC) 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Miss Tori (Public Bar) 9pm

Friday

Saturday

15

16

Watergarden

The Tassie Tenor

Burnie High School Performing Arts Centre

Django’s Tiger 7pm

Kendall’s Hotel

The Smokin’ Elmores 9pm

Scottsdale Primary School

Peter and the Wolf 5pm

The Royal Oak

Susannah Coleman-Brown (Public Bar) 9pm

Tonic Bar

Candy Feet 9pm

Watergarden

The Rockwells 8pm

Country Club Showroom

The Linda Ronstadt Songbook

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

Adam Page Rock and Roll Show 8pm

Kendall’s Hotel

Skooterz 8pm

Olde Tudor Hotel

Scott Haigh 7:30pm

Saint John Craft Beer

Jo Jo Smith, Lucie Thorne & Claire Anne Taylor

The Royal Oak

Cody Gunton (Public Bar) 9pm

Tonic Bar

Tim & Scott 9pm

Watergarden

Jonathan Mark Hayden 8pm

Sunday

17

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

Two Oaks, Somerset

Jo Jo Smith, Lucie Thorne & Claire Anne Taylor

Wednesday

20

The Royal Oak

Ben Castles (Public Bar) 9pm

Thursday

21

The Royal Oak

Matt Gibson, Joe Kallman (Public Bar)

Watergarden

Jacob Boote

Country Club Showroom

The Kings of Rock and Soul

The Greenwood Bar

The Smokin’ Elmores 10pm

The Royal Oak

Mick Attard (Public Bar) 9pm

Tonic Bar

DJ Randall Foxx 9pm

Friday

Saturday

22

23

Watergarden

John & Jai 8pm

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

Scott Lewis Live 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Isla Ka w/ Support (Oak Shed) 9pm

Tonic Bar

Gypsy Rose 9pm

Watergarden

Leigh Ratcliffe 8pm

Sunday

24

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

Yachtie’s Sports Bar & Cafe

The Smokin’ Elmores 1pm

Tuesday

26

The Royal Oak

Espresso Bongo (Oak Shed) 8pm

Wednesday

27

The Irish

Live and Acoustic at The Irish! 9:30pm

The Royal Oak

Open Mic (Public Bar) 9pm

Saint John Craft Beer

Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird 8pm

The Royal Oak

John Collighan (Public Bar) 9pm

Watergarden

Tony Voglino

Kings Bridge Bar & Restaurant

Scott Lewis Live 6pm

Paranaple Centre

Stardust: The Songs of Willie Nelson 7:30pm

The Gunners Arms

Teenage Dads 9pm

The Royal Oak

Matthew Barker (Public Bar) 9pm

Tonic Bar

Nat & Andy 9pm

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

26

28

29

30

31

Watergarden

Adam Page 8pm

Iron Horse Bar & Grill

The Fireflys 8pm

Molly Malones

Matthew Barker 9pm

The Royal Oak

Jacob Boote (Public Bar) 9pm

Tonic Bar

New Sensation 9pm

Watergarden

Jerome Hillier 8pm

The Royal Oak

Blues Club Jam (Oak Shed) 1pm

The Royal Oak

Open Folk Seisiun (Public Bar) 5pm

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